• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Commelina suffruticosa Blume
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open plains
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Cuttack district, Bargarh district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, South China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Commelina suffruticosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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